Juan Pierre intends to shock the world, and he was the leader of that campaign once again last night.

Pierre was at the heart of all three runs the Marlins scored in their 3-2 upset over the Yankees in Game 1 of the World Series, leading off the game with a bunt single and first-inning run and later delivering the tie-breaking, two-run single in the fifth.

“It’s always good for me to drive in runs and take pride in that, but just for me and Luis [Castillo] getting on base, hopefully that’s setting the tone for the rest of the series.”

Pierre once again proved to be the consummate table-setter for the Marlins, who acquired him in a complicated deal last Nov. 18 that sent outfielder Preston Wilson to Colorado and Mike Hampton to Atlanta via Florida. During the Marlins’ three-games-to-one comeback in the NLCS, the leadoff hitter said he intended to “shock the world.” A world championship over the Yankees would certainly solidify the shock that many New Yorkers felt last night.

On the second pitch of the game, Pierre expertly executed a drag bunt past the pitcher’s mound and sped to first by the time second baseman Alfonso Soriano fielded the ball.

Pierre accelerated from first to third on Luis Castillo’s single to shallow right like he was navigating a Honda motorcycle, and he scored on Pudge Rodriguez’s sacrifice fly to center to put Florida ahead 1-0.

“Just to put them uneasy, that’s my job. To create havoc,” said Pierre, who finished 2-for-3 with a walk, hit-by-pitch and stolen base. “It opens up the field for me [later in the game]. I accomplished what I wanted to do.”

With runners on second and third and one out in the fifth, Pierre came to the plate needing only a sacrifice fly off David Wells to give his club the lead. But he lined a 1-and-1 offering the other way through the hole at short and beyond Derek Jeter’s backhand attempt. Two runs scored when third baseman Aaron Boone cut off Hideki Matsui’s weak throw home and fired to first to keep Pierre there.

“You just try to get a good pitch,” Pierre said. “I always try to say the pressure’s on the pitcher. He’s trying to get you out. There’s nothing I really do different.

“It’s the same old, same old. My two-strike swing is the same as my 0-and-0 swing and my 2-and-0 swing.”